bondcrash - Yeah - the lads are going to have to play "over their heads" to beat your crew on Sunday the 13th. I have a slight feeling that the fans at the Superdome might be just a little bit excited about their prospects for the 2009 campaign. To win, the Lions would have to win the special teams battle and have the best defense on the field on the 13th. Offensively, if it ends up being a draw, the Lions can win. Your receivers will have to help us out with that by dropping passes and laying the ball on the ground. The Lions will have to win the turnover battle for sure. Anything more than 1 interception given away by the Lions and they probably won't be able to win. You can't win on the road by turning the ball over. Besides that, your club won't need any extra help. The Lions are just going to have to catch some breaks and play the best game they've played in two or three years. The over/under is 48.5 - this game is going to be a shootout!

504ever - For everything you think your team is, there is a lot that it is not. That's why your team finished last place in their division. That's underachievement on steriods, my friend.

Top offense, #23 defense = LAST PLACE IN DIVISION AND NO PLAYOFFS.

Last year is last year for both teams.

If you want my best guess, obviously we've got to take the over/under into account, the offenses and the defenses and surmise one conclusion: shootout. Something like 38 to 31 or so. Lots of points - should be very spectator friendly for the average fan.

Your prediction is a little shy of the over/under of 48 1/2. Your Saints are favored by 11 1/2. Lions would have to play their best game in two seasons to win - and if they catch a couple breaks, you just never know.

aries4256 - Lions can win. It'll be a huge surprise, I know - nobody believes me down your way, and that's okay. It's a large virtual venue we have here - unlimited seating capacity. Plenty of canvass for expression it would appear.

Lions win.

Forty-five to three.

Lions deal Saints "the shocker" to start it off right in 2009! WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!

saintsgumbo - The Lions are taking their cues about how to finish in their division from the Aint's - Top Offense in NFL = DEAD LAST IN NFC SOUTH. Now what was that you were saying? You've got a bad case of gumbo on the brain. Might want to get that checked. I hear that's right next to your prostrate.

7Saints4life - In case you missed it, I'm the one who brought this to your doorstep, not vice versa. It doesn't require any courage to blog on the Lions site - anybody can do that. I'm not a sidelines kind of guy. If there is a game to be played, put me in, coach. So here we are, kids.

Posted by Dixiebeerguy on 08/01/09 at 8:36AM
GLW..........it is posslble for Y'ALL to win remember David and Goliath

Posted by dixiebeerguy on 08/01/09 at 8:48AM
GLW.......it is possible for the lions to defeat our SAINTS. Remember David and Goliath... EXCEPT Y'ALL ain't got the "STONES" !!!
HELL, admit it, you LIKED that one!!!
Last night on the NFL network they said historically "the record proved the lions are the WORSE team in the history of the NFL" !!!
That did not come from a SAINTS, viking or bear fan that came from Rich Eisen. (spelling?)

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Well, with Rich being a Michigan man, you can expect him to report the facts. It doesn't have to be popular - it only need be true.